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"BLANCHE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "white", "fair". |
Date "BLANCHE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | An acute keratoconjunctivitis, highly contagious, characterized by edema of the eyelids and the conjunctiva, subepithelial corneal infiltration, petechial hemorrhages, hyperemia and involvement of the regional lymph nodes, considered to be due to a virus. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Liberality | Verb: be liberal;Adjective: spend freely, bleed freely; shower down upon; open one's purse strings; (disburse); spare no expense, give carte blanche. |
Permission | Permit, warrant, brevet, precept, sanction, authority, firman; hukm; pass, passport; furlough, license, carte blanche, ticket of leave; grant, charter; patent, letters patent. |
Give carte blanche, give the reins to, give scope to; (freedom); leave alone, leave it to one, leave the door open; open the door to, open the flood gates; give a loose to. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BLANCHE |
| English words defined with "BLANCHE": Prairie turnip. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BLANCHE": white coal, White Company. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "BLANCHE": Pomme blanche. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BLANCHE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (half note, minim, snow). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Don't threaten me with jail, Blanche, because it's not a threat. (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon) You have carte blanche, but not a blank check. (E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldil; writing credit: Dardano Sacchetti;) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Touche pas la femme blanche (1974) Blanche (1971) La Chambre blanche (1969) L' Échelle blanche (1969) Mouse Blanche (1962) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Voyez mon filtre...j'y mets de l'eau toute noire et elle en sort toute blanche. / Cham [i.e. Amédée Noé]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Thibaut's son was a saint : when they made him a bishop, Thibaut was incoherent with joy, and Blanche wondered whether she ought to be proud and if so, what of. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Maison Blanche, New Orleans, La. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Graham, Martha, and Blanche Talmud, of Neighborhood Playhouse. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Miss Blanche Lehman and Miss Tereta Sheaffer in dance number of the second edition of Uncle Sams Follies]. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The America of tomorrow The Red Cross fosters community health / / Blanche Greer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mme. Blanche Marchesi presented by H.B. Thearle and J. Saunders Gordon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Blanche Berndt Mehaffey, soprano. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Blanche Walsh. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Alfred Knopf and Blanche Knopf. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | The Bush administration has given almost carte blanche to the FBI in way of wiretaps and reading e-mails all under the age old rubric that anyone who isn't doing anything wrong should have nothing to hide. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BLANCHE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.31% of the time. "BLANCHE" is used about 491 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 94.31% | 464 | 12,682 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.69% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Total | 100.00% | 491 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BLANCHE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Blanche | First name Female | 55,000 | 321 |
| Blanche | Last name | 1,000 | 12,270 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "BLANCHE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "white", "fair". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "BLANCHE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Blanch | Female | English | Blanche |
| Blanche | Female | English | N/A |
| Blanche | Female | French | N/A |
| Bianca | Female | Italian | Blanche |
| Blanca | Female | Spanish | Blanche |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "BLANCHE": arme blanche ♦ carte blanche ♦ Dame Blanche ♦ give carte blanche ♦ pomme blanche. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BLANCHE": Blanche-neige, blanche-taque. | |
Ending with "BLANCHE": carte-blanche. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "BLANCHE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تفويض مطلق (carte blanche), سلطة تامة (carte blanche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свобода на действие (carte blanche, discretion, elbow room, free hand, latitude, leeway), хладно оръжие (arme blanche), картбланш (carte blanche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bílá karta (carte blanche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | blanco volmacht (blank cheque, carte blanche), blanco cheque (blank cheque, carte blanche), carte blanche (blank cheque, carte blanche, elbow-room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | blanketo (blank cheque, carte blanche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pouvoir complet (carte blanche), carte blanche (carte blanche), autorisation sans limite (carte blanche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πληρεξουσιοδοτώ (give carte blanche), εν λευκώ (carte blanche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יפוי כח מלא (carte blanche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lovasság (arme blanche, cavalry, horse), lándzsa (arme blanche, assagai, assegai, lance, pike, shaft, spear), korlátozás nélküli felhatalmazás (carte blanche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carta bianca (carte blanche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | giallaghey (bleach, bleaching, brighten, clear, clear of weather, lime wash, to the full, whiten, whitening), Blaunsh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ancheblay cartabranca (blank cheque, carte blanche), carta branca (carte blanche, freedom hand), assinaturaembranco (blank cheque, carte blanche). (various references) бланш. (various references) otvoren račun (carte blanche). (various references) carta blanca (blank cheque, carte blanche, freehand). (various references) blankofullmakt (carte blanche), full handlingsfrihet (carte blanche), carte blanche (carte blanche). (various references) tam yetki (carte blanche, direct responsibility, free hand, plenary power), sınırsız yetki (carte blanche), açık kart (carte blanche). (various references) vũ trang (arme blanche, armed, weaponed), sự được to n quyền h nh động (carte blanche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BLANCHE": blanched, blancher, blanchers, blanches. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-h-l-n" | |
-1 letter: blanch, bleach, blench. | |
-2 letters: beach, belch, bench, cable, chela, clean, hance, lance, leach. | |
-3 letters: able, ache, acne, alec, bach, bale, bane, bean, blae, blah, cane, clan, each, elan, haen, hale, heal, lace, lane, lean, lech, nabe. | |
-4 letters: ace, alb, ale, ane, bah, bal, ban, bel, ben, cab, can, cel, hae, hen, lab, lac, lea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-h-l-n" | |
+1 letter: blanched, blancher, blanches. | |
+2 letters: benchland, blanchers, bleaching, branchlet. | |
+3 letters: bechalking, benchlands, branchless, branchlets, branchline, changeable, changeably, crunchable, encashable, machinable, quenchable, unbleached, unchewable. | |
+4 letters: bellyaching, blackhander, branchlines, chamberlain, hibernacula, machineable, shacklebone, uncatchable, uncheckable, uncrushable, unmatchable, unreachable, unshockable, unteachable, untouchable, unwatchable. | |
+5 letters: analphabetic, backhandedly, biotechnical, blackhanders, chamberlains, childbearing, elasmobranch, exchangeable, hibernaculum, mechanizable, merchantable, noncrushable, shacklebones, technobabble, unbreachable, unchangeable, unchangeably, uncharitable, unquenchable, unsearchable, unsearchably, untouchables. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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